We recently posted a video about climbing the rig on the Götheborg of Sweden. Here is an interesting application of “high ropes course” techniques and technology to allow the public to safely climb to the maintop and out on a yard on the historic clipper ship Cutty Sark, in drydock in Greenwich, UK. And, as is often typical in ropes courses, participants come down by zip line. Click here to learn more.
Thanks to Irwin Bryan for contributing to this post.
Good for her! I did it under way in calm weather, but the crew restricted us from going beyond the lower courses. Sailing on a tall ship is so different from being on a steamship.
A great opportunity – and a potential source of revenue for maintenance? As a former voyage crewman of Bark Endeavour, circumnavigating in 1999 (we were on the North Pacific voyage) my heart still pounds when I remember climbing aloft…